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Ruam P. F. A. Pimentel
I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people1, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times2, and built packages for R3 that let you do magic4.
Education
PhD. Candidate, Psychology, Quantitative Psychology (Minor)
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH (USA)
2024 - 2019
- Teaching and Research Assistant
M.S., Psychology, Psychological Assessment (Area)
Universidade São Francisco
Campinas, SP (Brazil)
2019 - 2018
- Thesis: …
- Teaching Assistant
Specialization in Neuroscience (300 hrs)
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Santos, SP (Brazil)
2019 - 2018
- Thesis: …
B.S., Psychology
CEULP/ULBRA
Palmas, TO (Brazil)
2017 - 2012
- Thesis: …
- Teaching and Research Assistant
Research Experience
Normative Data Collection Coordinator (Research Assistant)
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Rorschach Perfomance Assessment System (R-PAS)
Current - 2021
- Organize international data collection across 17 countries.
- Provide resources for data collectors
- to be update
Translation and Adaptation of the Personality Assessment Inventory to Portuguese (Research Assistant)
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Current - 2020
- Assist in all drafts and analysis.
- Organize and clean items for translation.
- Backtranslation (Portuguese to English).
- Run psychometrics (e.g., internal consistency, validity studies, norms).
Teaching Assistant
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The University of Toledo
2021 - 2019
- Statistical Methods 1 (for grad student)
- Statistical Methods 2 (for grad student)
- Personality (for undegrad)
- Statistics (for undergrad)
Teaching Assistant
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Universidade São Francisco
2019 - 2018
- Thesis advising I (for undegrad)
- Thesis advising II (for undergrad)
Teaching Assistant
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CEULP/ULBRA
2017 - 2014
- Morphophysiology and human behavior
- Methods of psychological assessment
- Psychological assessment
- Neuropsychological assessment
Industry Experience
I have worked in a variety of roles ranging from journalist to software engineer to data scientist. I like collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers.
Teaching Experience
I am passionate about education. I believe that no topic is too complex if the teacher is empathetic and willing to think about new methods of approaching task.
Javascript for Shiny Users
RStudio::conf 2020
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2020
- Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
- Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.5
Data Visualization Best Practices
DataCamp
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2019 - 2019
- Designed from bottom up course to teach best practices for scientific visualizations.
- Uses R and ggplot2.
- In top 10% on platform by popularity.
Improving your visualization in Python
DataCamp
N/A
2019 - 2019
- Designed from bottom up course to teach advanced methods for enhancing visualization.
- Uses python, matplotlib, and seaborn.
Advanced Statistical Learning and Inference
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
Nashville, TN
2018 - 2017
- TA and lectured
- Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
- Highest level course offered in department
Advanced Statistical Computing
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
Nashville, TN
2018 - 2018
- TA and lectured
- Covered modern statistical computing algorithms
- 4th year PhD level class
Statistical Computing in R
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
Nashville, TN
2017 - 2017
- TA and lectured
- Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
- Graduate level class
Selected Data Science Writing
I regularly blog about data science and visualization on my blog LiveFreeOrDichotomize.6
Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb7
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
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2019
- Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
- Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
- Reached top of HackerNews.
Classifying physical activity from smartphone data8
RStudio Tensorflow Blog
N/A
2018
- Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
- Contracted article.
The United States of Seasons9
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2018
- GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
- Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.
A year as told by fitbit10
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2017
- Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
- Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.
MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds11
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2017
- Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
- Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.
The Traveling Metallurgist12
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2017
- Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated annealing.
- Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the algorithm.
Selected Press (About)
Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app13
Science
N/A
2017 - 2017
- Story of the app Papr14 made with Jeff Leek and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan.
Swipe right for science: Papr app is ‘Tinder for preprints’15
Nature News
N/A
2017 - 2017
- Second press article for app Papr.
The Deeper Story in the Data16
University of Vermont Quarterly
N/A
2016 - 2016
- Story on my path post graduation and the power of narrative.
Selected Press (By)
The Great Student Migration17
The New York Times
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2016 - 2016
- Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.
Wildfires are Getting Worse, The New York Times18
The New York Times
N/A
2016 - 2016
- GIS analysis and modeling of fire patterns and trends
- Data in collaboration with NASA and USGS
Who’s Speaking at the Democratic National Convention?19
The New York Times
N/A
2016 - 2016
- Data scraped from CSPAN records to figure out who talked and past conventions.
Who’s Speaking at the Republican National Convention?20
The New York Times
N/A
2016 - 2016
- Used same data scraping techniques as Who’s Speaking at the Democratic National Convention?
A Trail of Terror in Nice, Block by Block21
The New York Times
N/A
2016 - 2016
- Led research effort to put together story of 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France in less than 12 hours.
- Work won Silver medal at Malofiej 2017, and gold at Society of News and Design.
Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks
Aplicativo de administração remota do R-PAS: Dados preliminares de equivalência (R-PAS Remote Administration Application: Preliminary equivalence data)
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Avanços digitais na aplicação do teste de Rorschach: Desenvolvimento do aplicativo de administração do R-PAS (Digital advances in the administration of the Rorschach test: Development of the R-PAS administration app)
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Avanços digitais na aplicação do teste de Rorschach: Uso do aplicativo de administração do R-PAS (Digital advances in the administration of the Rorschach test: Use of the R-PAS administration app)
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- presentation
One for All and All for One: Culture, Personality, and Governmental Policies Predicting Mask-Wearing in an International Sample
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- presentation
Opções e Desafios da pesquisa com Testes de Perfomance em tempos pandêmicos (Options and Challenges of Research with Performance Tests in Pandemic Times)
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- presentation
Beyond the ‘Mask Wars’: Cross-national comparison of health protective behaviors, government compliance, and empathy
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- presentation
The Pfister colored pyramid test and its use in C/TA
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- presentation
Sistema de Avaliação por Performance no Rorschach: Uma Breve Introdução ao R-PAS (Rorschach Perfomance Assessment System: A brief introduction to R-PAS)
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Sistema de Avaliação por Performance no Rorschach Itermediário: Administração e Codifição (Intermediate Rorschach Performance Assessment System: Administration and Coding)
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- presentation
Assessing Potential R-PAS Score Differences for Inperson and Remote Administration
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The influence of emotional valence over Source Memory in Aging Paper Presentation
ENAR 2020
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2020
- conferencePaper
- How and why building an R package can benefit methodological research
What do we know about the Source Memory in Aging? A review Paper presentation
RStudio::conf 2020
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2020
- presentation
- Focus on how software development and methodological research can improve both benefit when done in tandem.
Assessing Potential R-PAS Score Differences for In-Person and Remote Administration
Bioinformatics
N/A
2020
- presentation
- See landing page22 for more information.
Comparing committed Forensic Inpatients to Non-Patients Instructed to Malinger Insanity of Not Using Scores from the Rorschach task and Self-report
Chest
N/A
2019 - 2019
- thesis
Impacto de Exergames na qualidade de vida de idosos
RStudio::conf 2019
N/A
2019 - 2019
- conferencePaper
Sentiment Analysis in Rorschach responses e-poster for online conference.
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series
N/A
2019 - 2019
- conferencePaper
Relation between R-PAS and BFI2 moderate by R-PAS self-perception indicators: preliminary studies Paper presentation
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
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2019
- conferencePaper
- Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.
Comparing Patients with Schizophrenia to Non-Patients Instructed to Malinger Insanity or Not Using Scores from the Rorschach Task and Self-Report
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
N/A
2019
- presentation
- Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.
Malingering severe psychopathology on the Rorschach task: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
N/A
2018 - 2018
- journalArticle
Coding criteria for Breaking the Card Boundary (BCB)
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Qualification Exam
N/A
2017 - 2017
- presentation
- Successfully met qualifying examination standards
Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD
Journal of Human Immunology
N/A
2015 - 2015
- journalArticle
Funcionamento patológico da personalidade para predição da depressão, qualidade de vida e esperança
International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference
N/A
2015 - 2015
- manuscript
Links
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/26/us/college-student-migration.html
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r_to_parse_25tb/
- https://github.com/nstrayer/shinysense
- http://nickstrayer.me/dataDayTexas/
- http://nickstrayer.me/js4shiny_r2d3/slides
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r_to_parse_25tb/
- https://blogs.rstudio.com/tensorflow/posts/2018-07-17-activity-detection/
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2018/02/12/the-united-states-of-seasons/
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/12/27/a-year-as-told-by-fitbit/
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/10/14/mcmc-and-the-case-of-the-spilled-seeds/
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/09/25/the-traveling-metallurgist/
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/great-paper-swipe-right-new-tinder-preprints-app
- https://jhubiostatistics.shinyapps.io/papr/
- https://www.nature.com/news/swipe-right-for-science-papr-app-is-tinder-for-preprints-1.22163
- https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/deeper-story-data
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/26/us/college-student-migration.html?smid=pl-share
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/25/us/wildfire-seasons-los-angeles.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/upshot/democrats-may-not-be-unified-but-their-convention-speakers-are.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/upshot/whos-not-speaking-how-this-republican-convention-differs.html?smid=pl-share
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/14/world/europe/trail-of-terror-france.html
- https://prod.tbilab.org/phewas_me_info/